I have to say, the campaigns i played over the last few month were mostly very different in feel and experience. I play with "non-standard" startpos.esf, always bit modified by myself (changes of victory conditions, more money for all, etc...) and always playing on "normal".

I was very disappointed in the first weeks, but after playing some campaigns to the end: E:TW is good, is fun - not outstanding but fun. And 1.4 makes it really better in my opinion, it's a step forward. Now i really care about the diplo screen and my relationships to other nations. Before 1.4 that wasn't essential for winning or losing the campaign.

We all are conditioned by CA to a specific gameplay in all TW Games. So we all expect the AI to do some weird things, after 1.4 it surprised me sometimes (in different ways), but that's what i wanted.

Only one thing really annoys me after the last patch: I am german, i like my armies well-organized. But the recruitment now with all these unit cards in disorder is a pain ...